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The Factor Structure of Medical Tourist Satisfaction: Exploring Key Drivers of Choice, Delight, and Frustration

2021

The current study intends to contribute to a better understanding of the medical tourism experience. In particular, this study uses data from a survey-based study conducted on a sample of 1,209 medical tourists in Croatia. On the one hand, this study aims to explore and shed light on the decision-making process of medical tourists, and, on the other hand, to reveal which elements of both the medical institution and the destination where it is located, have largest potentials to drive medical tourist delight and/or frustration, in accordance with the three-factor theory of customer satisfaction.

Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Managementmedia_common.quotation_subjectKey (cryptography)Medical tourismFrustrationmedical tourism ; tourist satisfaction and dissatisfaction ; choice behavior ; impact-asymmetry analysisSample (statistics)MarketingPsychologyFactor structureTourismEducationmedia_commonJournal of Hospitality & Tourism Research
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It’s More Fun in the Philippines? The Challenges of Tourism

2017

The Philippines have been in recent years a minor destination of international tourism flows, especially from Europe. Most visitors are Asians (Korea, Japan), Americans or Australians. This chapter examines some strengths of the Philippines in terms of tourism potentials (landscapes, undersea diving, cultural heritage), then its organizational and infrastructural weaknesses (transportation), as well as the lack of proper maintenance of tourism assets and the overcrowding of Boracay island, before examining the tourism policies of the national government (the successful “Its more fun in the Philippines” campaign, development of gambling, medical tourism and ecotourism). Four case studies in …

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International Retirement Migration: Transforming Societies Through Purchasing Power?

2016

Despite a more than 40-year-old tradition of international retirement migration (IRM) in Europe, relatively little social scientific research has been carried out in this field. Retired European migrants have not been considered to be politically controversial (i.e. they are not viewed as having been the causes of social problems or as needy, poor or deprived). Often, the terms used in the 1980s and early 1990s to describe these populations have been linked not to a migration model but to the model of the social agent of a tourist. The chapter is divided into three parts: (1) a general overview of the flows and socio-economic characteristics of IRM in Europe, addressing the main regions of …

education.field_of_studyEconomic growthbusiness.industryPopulationPurchasing powerMedical tourismSocial issuesSocial transformationHealth caremedicineEconomicsSocial isolationmedicine.symptombusinesseducationTourism
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